Wiki for the win

Monday, December 01 2003 tools

Have you ever used a Wiki? A Wiki is a collaborative, cooperative web site, usually open for anyone (and everyone) to contribute towards. Sounds chaotic, doesn’t it.

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The Nature of Quality

Wednesday, December 03 2003 professional

How good is your software, really? Is the quality of your product an external factor, imposed by testing and the gradual elimination of bugs, or is it an internal factor originating deep down in the design choices you make and the code you write?

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Approaches to Development - Hacking

Saturday, December 06 2003

I’ve been thinking recently about the different ways that solutions can be developed - the different approaches taken by different people to the same problem.

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Bitmap cloning in .NET

Thursday, December 11 2003 dotnet

For some odd reason, Cloning a .net Bitmap doesn’t actually give you a different image. Oh, sure, the object returned from Bitmap.Clone() is a Bitmap, and it is a different instance of the Bitmap class from the one you started with. But it’s not a different image.

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The Asylum

Friday, December 19 2003 ux

If you are a software developer who is ever responsible for the user interface provided to your users, then this is a book you have to read.

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Streams in .NET

Friday, December 26 2003 dotnet

In my previous entry I wrote about how .net streams don’t have a built in way to copy from one stream to another.

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